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Experienced speakers, what's your prep time factor for a talk you consider useful, solid, and well delivered?

Assume "talk time" is just the time spent on stage, and "prep time" encompasses all of drafting, writing, preparing slides, editing, and rehearsal. (Including any work you spend on the talk proposal, of course.)

"For every minute of talk time, I spend ___ minutes of prep time."

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A: 10 or less
6.1%
B: Between 10 and 30
53.1%
C: Between 30 and 60
34.7%
D: More than 60
6.1%
Poll ended at .

From Wolfram Alpha....

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/
>Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

In June...

Not gonna lie, this report is impressive, and every Mastodon instance should publish something like this every month. I have an account on mstdn.ca, and this is the kind of thing that would encourage me to move my main account from mastodon.social to mstdn.ca (although I would still support Eugen’s Patreon for his work on Mastodon, which benefits all instances). Staying put for now, though.

https://news.mstdn.ca/state-of-the-instance-nov-2022/

State of the Instance - November 2022

Cliquez ici pour le français I'll start off with this: It's been one hell of a month for Mastodon Canada. Introduction The instance grew from less than 60 users to what is now 24 500 users in the span of just two weeks. It went from an experiment to a

Mastodon Canada News

Scientists have finally achieved it. After years of painstaking research and lab experiments, mankind has finally created the purest, most concentrated, dumbest possible take.

> Congress should end the war in Ukraine by withdrawing from NATO

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3750203-congress-should-end-the-war-in-ukraine-by-withdrawing-from-nato/

Congress should end the war in Ukraine by withdrawing from NATO

Congress can end the war in Ukraine and win a Nobel Peace Prize by enacting a statute withdrawing the United States from NATO.

The Hill